Wrong or no posts

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  barrypoore · Member · Nov 10, 2023 at 11:08 am

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  Can anybody help with this issueI’ve been battling with for days?
  The task I thought should be simple but I’m missing something.

  I have a custom post type and each post type is assigned to a child category, I loop through the child categories and call a function each iteration that gets the posts assigned to it, or at least it’s supposed to.
  
  If I remove the cat_idfrom args then all results listed (even though it only gets three at a time (for some strange reason).
  
  If I add the cat_id then no posts get returned, I have checked the posts are correctly assigned to their categories and they are, I have echoed the ID’s to the page to check they’re present and they are but still with a cat in args I get no results.

  Here is the categories loop which appears to work fine:

  $categories = get_categories();
  foreach( $categories as $category ) {
  
          if ( $category->parent > 0 ) {
              $child_cat_ID[] =  $category->term_id;
              $parent_cat_ID = $category->parent;
              $catty = $category->term_id;
              get_geo_services($category->term_id, $category->slug);
          }
      }

  And here is my function that should be retrieving the posts:

  function get_geo_services($cat_id, $category_name) {
  	echo 'Services in '.$category_name. ' with the cat ID of '.$cat_id;
  	$args = array(  
  		'post_type' => 'geo_service',
  		'cat' => '.$cat_id.',
  		'post_status' => 'publish',
  		'posts_per_page' => 20, 
  		'orderby' => 'title',
  		'order' => 'ASC');
  	
  	$loop = new WP_Query( $args ); 
  	  echo '<div class="row">'; 
  			while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); 
  			echo '<div class="col-12 col-md-4 col-lg-3">'; 
  				echo '<div class="service-card">';
  					echo '<h4 class="service-card-title">'; 
  						echo '<a href="';
  						the_permalink();
  						echo '">';
  							the_title();
  						echo '</a>';
  					echo '</h4>';
  					if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) : ?>
  						<div class="service-card_image">
  							<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">
  								<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
  							</a>
  						</div>
  					<?php endif;
  					echo '<div class="service-card_content">';
  						the_excerpt(); 
  					echo '</div>'; 
  				echo '</div>'; 
  			echo '</div>'; 
  			endwhile;
  		echo '</div>';
  	wp_reset_postdata(); 
  }

  Can anybody please help, I’m sure someone with WP expertise will be able to spot what I am doing wrong. Thank you in advance.

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  fstat · Staff · Nov 10, 2023 at 1:38 pm

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  Hi there,

  I’ve taken the time to look into your website and noticed that it’s actually using the WordPress.org software and is hosted by a different provider.

  WordPress.org is the same foundational software we use here at WordPress.com, but it’s set up a little differently. Because of this, the specific help you may need can be different. To get the most appropriate help for your issue, I’d recommend posting your question in the official WordPress.org support forums, which you can find here: https://wordpress.org/support/forums/.

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